Re: psgml and catalog files in XML format

At 22:57 10/09/2002, Ron Ross wrote:


>I admit I don't use XML much except for my own DTDs with local system
>identifiers, but testing now with
>
>  <?xml version='1.0'?>
>  <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
>  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [
>  ]>
>
>where my catalog file has
>
>PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "./dtd/docbookx/docbookx.dtd"
>SYSTEM "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" "./dtd/docbookx/docbookx.dtd"
>
>pointing to my local copy of the DTD, Emacs/psgml seems to work fine.

Yep.
But when you want to validate it? Or Norm updates everything?

I've just moved all my  external to emacs processing to use XML
catalogs at work today.

Once I get the website stuff working I'll do the same at home.
I'm sold on it.
(Also on libxml from the gnome crowd for no net validation!)

It still understands your normal oasis catalog btw.

There is quite a good write up as part of the download.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec.html
for the spec

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/#tools

for the tools.

HTH DaveP




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